skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually set the new Gmail to retrieve email by POP/IMAP from old one, and have a filter defined in the old one:

Matches: from:(*)
Do this: Never send it to Spam, Exclude from SmartLabel categorization

In this way, every single email is forwarded to the new account and filters in the new one deals with spams or whatever. But you can always conveniently check mistakenly spammed emails in your new account.
Dinner is overdue for disruption.
Open Source's Final Frontier
Hilarious. Some suggestions:
"Stop doing XXXX now", "YYYY is dead", and "Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button disappears: the beginning of the end?"

Here's a similar spoof from 13 years ago. Wow, Slashdot really hasn't changed much, has it? http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html
That's a rhetorical question, of course. :-)
Party of Sin Trailer (New)
I refer.ly they are looking for a senior software engineer with good knowledge of php and mysql. So perhaps the title should be "The Most Revealing Job Interview Question for Finding a Good PHP Developer".

A very conservative approach, in this landscape every single decision must be attached to a clear goal, there is no room for experimentation, you should follow a direct goal Explain to your team how can get they solve the problems for their clients and describe the path for this goal.
What about:

Fascinating Article I Submitted - 1 month ago - 1 point

Month-Old Fascinating Article with '?' Appended to URL - 15 minutes ago - 1,421 points
If you never interact with a gmail account, the spam filtering isn't going to work very well. It can't tell what you've read or skipped, and you never compose anything, so it doesn't know who are your real correspondents. That's why forwarding in this way is a bad idea.
It is the last step. The other steps vary by state, but in general, it requires that you have at least four years of documented and progressive experience under the direction of another licensed Engineer. You also need to have taken the EIT, which is a general Engineering exam that covers all disciplines, not just computers (brush up on your thermodynamics and concrete mixing!).

If you do not have an ABET degree, then it is still possible to obtain a PE, but the requirements generally go from four years to sixteen years of documented experience.

I may be wrong, I don't think this will be a route for Computer Science. It is more for those individuals who have been programming under other Engineering hats ("controls", "electrical", "mechanical") but now have a way to take an exam that satisfies their actual Engineering work. For instance, I might have fit more under the hat of Software Engineer (since I did a lot of embedded programming), but had to take the Electrical Engineering exam instead due to lack of selection.
Pasting in the emails was going to make the post very long, but to summarize, we presented Meritful as a tool for students to build a positive web presence, as a tool for teachers and mentors to run projects and give feedback to students, as a tool to help with college admissions by creating an impressive portfolio and interaction from respected folk and another comparing Meritful to existing products for teens.

The sample size was roughly evenly split between the total number of contacts we had.
Up to a rumored 450K workers per factory zone... 1.2M employees in total at last count... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786
What if Nokia has a 5 year contract with Microsoft? Could they still end that somehow?

The patent thing actually makes it a very good acquisition target for Samsung as well.
I'm actually in tears laughing right now. Lol.

Well done. Well done...
My favorite:

> 30. A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post

> 3 points by happy4crazy 5 hours ago | flag | discuss
I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts.

My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window.

I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
The new exam just gives states a way to evaluate applicants for licenses in software engineering. I haven’t heard that any state—not even Texas, which sponsored development of the exam—has changed its engineering practice laws or regulations.

If and when such changes are made, I expect the result would be something like the situation for electrical engineers now: a nominal requirement for licensure coupled with broad exemptions that make it practically irrelevant for most people working in the field.

In most states, only a licensed (registered) engineer may use the title “electrical engineer,” practice electrical engineering, or offer electrical engineering services to the public, but there is usually a so-called “industrial exemption” from these requirements; this section of the California Business and Professions Code is typical:

6747. (a) This chapter, except for those provisions
that apply to civil engineers and civil engineering,
shall not apply to the performance of engineering work
by a manufacturing, mining, public utility, research
and development, or other industrial corporation, or
by employees of that corporation, provided that work
is in connection with, or incidental to, the products,
systems, or services of that corporation or its
affiliates.
(b) For purposes of this section, “employees” also
includes consultants, temporary employees, contract
employees, and those persons hired pursuant to third-
party contracts.

As I understand it, this exemption exists because employers convinced the Legislature that corporate liability, including strict liability for product defects, would be an adequate substitute for licensure as a means to protect the public from professional incompetence.

Practically speaking, the only electrical engineers who must have licenses are those designing electric power systems for buildings or working for public utilities, which often choose to employ only licensed engineers in positions of responsibility, even when this is not legally required.

As a licensed engineer myself, I’m not sure this state of affairs is best for the public or for the engineering profession, but I’m also not convinced that software engineering, as a discipline, is sufficiently mature that even a nominal requirement for licensure would provide enough real benefits to justify the burden on practitioners.
We actually looked at using MailChimp for this, but we didn't want to go outside of the TOS. So, we ended up merging the mail locally using Thunderbird and sending it from our personal accounts. I am sure there is more to be said about the line between the two, however.
It's happening already - a lot of my liberal-arts friends are retraining as programmers - but the thing is that it takes 10 years to develop expertise in a skill. So the market for good programmers will remain untouched for the foreseeable future, and that should give the alert ones plenty of time to skate to a different point in the value chain if market conditions start changing.
I'm tired of reading articles or e-mails that begin with, "This one tip could increase conversions 250% if you put it in practice." This one tip spans four pages and yet could be condensed into one sentence. The funny thing is that the bulk of the four pages have nothing to do with the tip and everything to do with sounding hip. I see more and more articles like this on HN from so-called business geniuses. It really makes me crave boring business books.
Did you know Chrome has multiple profile support? It's under Settings -> Users. After you've got more than one user, there's a quick-user-switch icon in Chrome's title bar.
You can actually sign in to multiple google accounts and switch between them (at least for email / docs - not analytics / other services). I can't remember exactly how to do it, I think you need to enable multiple sign in on the account first.
Why Google+ Still Has Huge Potential
I thought Ruby was dead. Or was that, "Java is dead"? Or maybe it was "C++ is dead."

I also vaguely remember reading:

* "JavaScript will never be dead"
* "Dart arrived dead"
* "PHP should be dead"
* "Lisp is back from the dead"
* "D stands for 'dead'"
* "SELECT FROM NOSQL WHERE STATUS IS DEAD"
* "COBOL still isn't dead"
* "Haskell Maybe dead"
My biggest turnoff about ASP.NET MVC is the lack of documentation, namely a cohesive manual. I find the handful of links to blog posts at http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview ridiculous and absolutely not befitting the only modern web development framework promoted by Microsoft.

Take a look at the great Django manual (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/) to see what I mean.
Let the fallacy barrage begin..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy
That caps lock thing does actually sound intriguing ... except that I already use it as Super.
I would expect that most of the companies that didn't respond read it, labeled it 'bullshit' and moved on (no offense it's a fun experiment to see how they react).
Note: Anonymous donors are also allowed and aren't included on that list. Not saying anything is odd about it all. ;)
I've noticed that all the communities I follow have a tendency toward self hatred.
Don't engineering licenses usually require a bunch of stuff like fluid mechanics and metal fatigue which are completely irrelevant for reliable software? I think we'd be better served with more statistics and denotational semantics....
Silicon Valley's Stock Funk
The EIT does, because the first portion is a general Engineering exam. It is generally at the sophomore level of a four-year University. The PE exam, however, is related to your discipline, though sometimes tangential questions may appear (some analog circuits on a digital exam).
"Man Fucks Up Email Configuration, Blames Gmail"

If only HN had mods, who could perhaps edit linkbait titles.
Pretty sure you can use two regular windows to run separate accounts (although the colour coding would be useful). Another option is running multiple user profiles in Chrome.
People spend $5000/month on Zynga?
Cracked me up seeing the 'same shoe' posts having just written something similar myself (http://davebeer.com/posts/wearing-the-same-shoes/).

Not that I'd submit it as a story to HN. But it did make me thing I'm closer to a parody than not.
And perhaps one day he will, if any of his amazing ventures pays off.
They certainly do. I've found that feature to be pretty buggy, personally. Command + tilde is faster than clicking a drop down and waiting for the switch.
Did you read the article? He didn't blame Google. He blamed himself [1][2] and alerted others to a mistake he made that they might make too.

[1] "So what I realized is that I had made a fatal mistake by forwarding my email"
[2] "But, I’m not trying to blame Google for this"

Edit: Also, the title doesn't blame Gmail either. "How to use Gmail..." implies that it's something you the user can do not something Gmail does.
or more truthfully: Man fucks up mail configuration in a non-obvious way, does not blame Gmail.
I cannot speak to the economics of New Zealand specifically, but there is a huge difference between a skilled farmhand and a farmhand. I referred to the former in my earlier post.

A skilled farmhand is someone who has, well, skills. They probably have a commercial drivers licence, background in mechanical work or dealing with animals, and have spent a lot of time operating heavy equipment. Those kind of people are rare, but can be paid well when you find them.

Someone without skills on the farm will probably be paid as you describe no matter where the location.
It's the more fun version of humility?
XOR, “The Tricky One”: advanced Boolean logic for nontechnical founders (scribd)

Make Fucking Linkbait With a Punchy Expletive

I learned how to program the HTML this weekend. Here’s what I learned

How to defeat procrastination using Chrome plugins
Cookies are shared between standard windows (unless there's a way to disable that).

Haven't looked into the profiles. Speed of switching would be the most important thing for me.
Many blacklists include all the EC2 addresses: for obvious reasons, they get used to send spam a lot.
I bought those books when I lived in Asia. The savings are huge, upwards of 80%. On the cover it does say "Not for Resale in North America & Europe" or "Not for Resale outside of (country)" on the cover. One note though, these books are usually an "international" edition which excludes some of the content usually found in the North American & European editions, including STEM subjects, which I initially found rather surprising.

When I first saw these editions more than ten years ago I had the same thought, of setting up a website and selling to North America and Europe. The main issues were finding sufficient supply (university libraries only order a certain amount for their own students) and that the editions were different. That can make a difference for some subjects and for the assignments.
zzzz is broken....
Indeed - it reads as if the reporter was unaware of doxing. 4chan is still a sub-subculture I guess.

The angle of it being used to make public affairs more transparent and accountable is interesting. I wonder, do the likes of Eric Holder or Jack Valenti get dosed?
Needs at least one submission titled: How I Built a Standing Desk In Three Easy Steps
SMTP doesn't just drop messages if the destination server is unavailable. It'll either get held back at an intermediary server until your server comes up again, or else it will be bounced back to the sender.
This is very nitpicky and not productive, but I just want to click something on that page!
In a more general sense, I see benefit outside of just demoscene. If code density makes programs small enough to fit in cache it makes diskless, RAM-based systems potentially faster.
As a portuguese... Zuckerberg buying Portugal would be the best thing ever! =D
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation 7 October 1885 – 18 November
1962 , http://www.psdmate.com/2012/10/06/niels-bohr/ - Niels Bohr
No offense taken. Having worked in that role, I knew how most companies would react. I was more interested in which companies would respond and how.
Like Microsoft they also seem to embrace responsive design.
I wouldn't argue for ageism, but I would say programming is different from law because technology changes much faster than law. There aren't giant paradigm shifts in law every 10 years.

A new technology may in fact be much more productive to work with than an old one. Does someone with COBOL experience have an advantage or a disadvantage in learning Python vs someone who is just starting? Which is larger, the amount of useful knowledge they bring along, or the amount they have to discard?

There are sage old programmers that I look up to. But there are also a lot who just burned out and quit, tired of the new technology treadmill. I'm not sure which I'll become.
It's horrific. Some bits work and are implemented, other bits don't and wont ever work.

Connecting for Health (and all the rest) are the programmes that persuaded me that governments should just define a standard, and then let providers build software and clinicians buy software that conform to the standard.

There are lots of things wrong with email, but SMTP was pretty robust across a range of platforms for servers and clients for many years.
It's really boring, you're right about that.
It's an opinion, it's neither true nor false, saying that if the admin is unattractive then it's not a good VC.

What is not a matter of opinion and is incontrovertibly true is that those two things have nothing to do with each other.
Seems like a popular blog title:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-apple-should-acquire-noki...
http://www.cultofmac.com/194130/why-apple-should-buy-nokia-t...
There's much more scientific evidence for evolution than there is for the belief (which the Congressman states in the video) that the earth is 9000 years old and was created in six days.
I'd be slightly more careful about making the claim you are making (though in your defense, nearly every person who makes a boastful post about their A/B testing is makes the same mistake).

For starters, you are picking an incredibly noisy metric, taking the maximum observed conversion and the minimum observed conversion and then dividing them. To better illustrate this, I wrote a little test script to simulate what you did many times. It assumes you have 4 email variations, send 125 emails each, and the average conversion rate is 5% across the buckets. Then it takes the minimum converting bucket, the maximum converting bucket, and divides them. Then does that 10k times and averages out what the gain would be by this metric, which is ~2.7x (code here: https://gist.github.com/3846278). 2.7x is a lot, but of course in this example it is pure noise, every single bucket converts exactly the same over the long term.

This metric also is particularly unhelpful because your goal is to have one high converting email. The metric you have chosen will be artificially boosted if you happen to have one horribly converting email. While that is potentially interesting fodder in just how differently various emails can convert, having one horrible email doesn't help you very much.

A better way for you to do this analysis is to dump your raw results into a mathematically sound A/B test calculator (I'm a bit of a homer but I don't think you can beat ABBA [http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/]), then look at the confidence conversion ranges of the various emails and only make claims based on that. Like... I tried 4 versions of email copy and got my conversion rate up to X% (+/- some hopefully small confidence interval)! One of the emails was a real stinker and only converted at Y% (+/- confidence interval), thankfully I A/B tested first and didn't end up getting stuck with that one!
G+ has huge potential because it's Google's identity layer, the discrete social network thing is a byproduct.
And it still has a lot of custom rom support.

I'm writing from my Galaxy S with CM10 (Jellybean) now. Naturally, it uses Ext (3?) partitions, and resizes the cache partition so I can download apps larger than 30mb from the play store (another interesting file system choice from Samsung).
Many GUI IDEs these days have vi or vim plugins (or equivalent), giving you the best of both worlds.
The Secret Project for Simon Silver
We live in sci-fi. The only things withholding this sci-fi from happening: lack of competent workforce (programmers and roboengineers) and lack of vision. It's going to arrive.

Currently I'm a programmer not a politician, therefore social reasons are not my problem. My problem is converting as many tasks in the world to code. And that will keep me busy and pay me a salary.

We could have a program writing programs, but I won't bet on that. Somebody will still have to give it orders; and the guy giving orders to a program is a programmer by definition.

You will have a lot of programmers overseeing computers and robots do various tasks, and that would be the largest and busiest part of the workplace.
And it's actually easy to end up in some infinite loop: http://i.imgur.com/IDR64.gif
The first point is a menu bar app thing. Seems weird to activate it for a popover type window. The other two are fixed in the latest update. Thanks for the feedback! <3
Essentially all software we've ever produced has been grossly defective (yes, including mine) and I hesitate to even call it engineering. Doing this at the current stage of the profession is like doctors formally specifying best practice for bloodletting and leeches.
I don't really get your point.

One Twitter or Facebook can hire as many engineers as 1/2 that list. To say nothing of other interesting, top-tier tech companies from which there's nearly a limitless need for more engineers.

I have good friends who are good engineers in NYC, and I live here in SF. They had a ton of choices from digital agencies, finance companies, and myriad other places building line-of-business software. Here? Every experienced engineer I know with a LinkedIn gets several cold-inmails a month for startup & tech company opportunities.

It's about density. The financial district in San Francisco can fit in about 1 block of lower Manhattan. And the startup community in NYC compares similarly to the startup community here -- which stretches 50 miles from San Jose to San Francisco and beyond.
> I am guessing I could answer enough (how many is enough?) of these 80 multiple choice questions to pass the exam right now.

The cutoff scores vary by year, but roughly 70% is a good benchmark for passing. Unless you fail, your actual score is not revealed. You can see the pass rates here [1], but not the actual cutoffs.

[1] http://www.ncees.org/Exams/PE_exam.php
We're in the UK so it might have to be PayPal for now :( but we might do that at some point once we've fixed all the bugs!
Adobe's even gotten Flash to export HTML5 animations. (with Grant Skinner's CreateJS library)

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/createjs/articles/getting-starte...

Who'd have thought Flash would become part of an HTML5 developer's workflow?
It's definitely entertaining. I like to think it's a sign that dogma won't be tolerated, but perhaps I'm being naive.
What bugs did you run into? I've been doing it for over a year and can't think of any that I've encountered.
If success is measured by money in the bank, let us celebrate the wonders of our criminal class! El Chapo - now there's a CEO success if I've seen one ;-)

Money != Value
Hey HN, long time reader, but I think this is my first "actual" new submission. Hurray!

Our company is called theory11 - the largest instructional magic site. We also make really high-end, designer playing cards. Having a crew of magic experts, and friends that work with James Randi, we were asked to collaborate on a viral site promoting the new film "Red Lights" with Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, and Sigourney Weaver.

The film is about a team of two physicists that defraud fake psychics, who claim to have powers to speak to the dead, cure cancer, and levitate. Our idea was to create a viral site that allowed you to freak out your friends (by secretly being our "informant") while simultaneously promoting the film and reminding people that there's more than meets the eye.

Because this is HN, I wanted to extend huge kudos to MailGun, Twilio, David Kwong, Mark Garity, Millennium Entertainment, and the guys at Les Avignons in Austria for their help with design and development. This was a great challenge that came together in two weeks from start to finish. Very happy with the result!

More Detail: http://www.theory11.com/news/secret-project-simon-silver/

Direct Link: http://www.simonsilver.com/secret/
> A deflating currency might disincentivize spending, but it won't halt it. And what's so great about incentivizing spending?

When you find yourself challenging the basis of nearly all economic theories, it might be time to step back from the bitcoin breadbowl.
Yes, and this is why I don't really advertise any other e-mail than my personal e-mail, though I reserved a couple real-name addresses for when there is a real need. Good thing I don't really need a work email as a student yet...
Natwest bank suspends Get Cash iPhone app after fraud
The answer to "Gmail drops some wanted messages into the spam folder" is definitely not "set up exim" nor "set up [insert email server here]".

There's a reason that people running servers at that level (from that time) are called BOFH.
`git` as a everyman's tool for delivering open and transparent government? I've seen enough experienced and intelligent developers struggle to internalize git to believe that can ever happen.

There is a worthwhile discussion about how the lessons of GitHub - the fork/pull collaboration model - could be applied to bring the same promise to non-programming domains, but saying that GitHub itself is the social network of the future is, IMHO, missing the important lesson.
I think it's great to be able to poke fun at one's self and also not to take things so seriously. Thank you much for the few minutes of hilarity and humor - I appreciated it!